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Hollyhock Presenters

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Our presenters are curated for their quality, depth, integrity, and alignment with our educational purpose. Since 1982, a distinguished faculty of authors, educators, activists, artists, performers, and practitioners have shared their work at our Cortes Island campus and in Vancouver.

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Sarah Fuller

Sarah Fuller is a visual artist with over 15 years of experience facilitating artist workshops. For ten years she was the Photography Facilitator in the Creative Residencies at the Banff Centre and more recently, has been a Mentor for Foundation Mentorship Program organized through Mentoring Artists for Women’s Art (MAWA) in Winnipeg, MB. She has been an artist in residence at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Laughing Waters in Nillumbick Shire, Australia, the Klondike Institute of Art and Culture, Yukon, Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Italy, and the Association of Visual Artists (SIM), Iceland. She holds a MFA from the University of Ottawa and a BFA from Emily Carr University. Recent exhibitions include Terra Incogknita at PLATFORM centre for photographic + digital arts, Winnipeg, Refugio at the University of Lethbridge Art Gallery and And perhaps in me someone very old still hears the living sound of wood at the Ottawa Art Gallery. Her video work has been screened at Art on the Screens (Mississauga 2019) and Photophobia (Hamilton 2019) . In 2017 she collaborated with Moment Factory and the Banff Centre on the site-specific installation Illuminations: Human/Nature. Her projects have been supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, the Alberta Foundation for the Arts and the Manitoba Arts Council.

Events with Sarah Fuller

In The Garden: Low Tech Photography Workshop
August 6 - 11, 2023

This alternative photography workshop focuses on the Anthotype and Cyanotype print processes using plants from Hollyhock’s garden for inspiration and creation of non-toxic photo emulsions. Participants will learn how to create Anthotype prints using the natural light-sensitive properties of plants. With the Cyanotype process, participants will be encouraged to use…

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